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Mike Riddle Answers in Genesis Facts About Apemen

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History of Man Evolution begins with the assumption that man has evolved from ape-like creatures Pick your relative The Bible teaches that God created man So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female Genesis 1:27

School Textbooks ,[object Object],Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, Biology – Visualizing Life, 1998, p. 213.

School Textbooks ,[object Object],Miller and Levine, Biology , 2000, p. 757.

Piltdown Man Segment of human skull Segment of lower ape-like jaw

Piltdown Man ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Piltdown Man New York Times ran an article: “ Darwin Theory Proved True.” ,[object Object],[object Object],A fraud (600 year old bones) The Truth

Nebraska Man ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],An extinct pig’s tooth The Truth

Ramapithecus 1930s What they drew What they found

Ramapithecus “ Ramapithicus is ideally structured to be an ancestor of hominids. If he isn't, we don't have anything else that is.” Time Magazine (Nov. 7, 1977)

Ramapithecus ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The claim: 14 million year old intermediate between ape-like creatures and humans The truth

Summary of “Facts” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],In each case the date (age) was completely WRONG! What about the dates?

Two Case Studies Neandertals Lucy and the Australopithicines

Neandertals Case Study 1 Characteristics Anatomy Genetics (DNA)

Neandertals Original Drawing of Neandertal

Neandertals ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Initial construction discovered to be wrong ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Neandertal Burial Cites ,[object Object],Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA: An Evaluation,” Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal , 1998 p.89.

Rearranging the Data Lower jaw 30 mm (over an inch) out of the socket Drawing of a Neandertal fossil purchased at the souvenir counter at the museum in Berlin giving an ape-like appearance From Buried Alive by Dr. Jack Cuozzo

Rearranging the Data Flat, human appearance From Buried Alive by Dr. Jack Cuozzo Lower jaw 30 mm (over an inch) out of the socket

Neandertal Anatomy Thick brow Stocky body build Short extremities

Neandertal Population ,[object Object],[object Object]

Neandertal Population ,[object Object],Where are the fossils? 1 2000 300 million 6 billion 100 generations

Neanderthals ,[object Object],[object Object],“ The results of mitochondrial DNA show clearly that Neandertal was not our direct ancestor, unlike earlier hypotheses made by some paleoanthropologists.” Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (Professor of genetics Stanford University), Genes, People, and Languages, 2000, p. 35.

Critical Thinking ,[object Object],How was this comparison made?

Statistics ,[object Object],Marvin Lubenow (Th.M., M.S. Anthropology), “Recovery of Neandertal mtDNA: AN Evaluation,” CEN Technical Journal , 1998.

Differences ,[object Object],What does this mean? ,[object Object],Neanderthal and human 22 Human and human 24

Evolution and Logic ,[object Object],[object Object],~ 8% of the people here tonight are not human

Neandertal DNA ,[object Object],Nicholas Comninellis, M.D., Creative Defense: Evidence Against Evolution , 2001, p. 195. (citing Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA: An Evaluation,” Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal , 1998.)

Conclusion About Neandertals ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Neandertal man, reconstructed from a skull found in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France

A Case Study in Deception Lucy and the Australopithecines

Lucy ,[object Object],[object Object],Note: Lucy is our ancestor

Challenges to Our Youth Artistic conception Note contemplative gaze, human hands and use of tools. Australopithecus africanus What do you notice about this picture?

Evolutionary Preconception ,[object Object],John Gurche, artist, National Geographic, March, 1996 p. 109.

What Was Found? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lucy and the Australopithecines ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Did Lucy Walk Upright ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],To determine if Lucy walked upright three areas of anatomy were examined

Rib Cage ,[object Object],[object Object],Circular barrel-like Human Conical shape Ape

Lucy’s Rib Cage ,[object Object],[object Object],Peter Schmid (paleontologist at the Anthropological Institute in Zurich) Quoted from Origins reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin

Lucy’s Rib Cage ,[object Object],Brad Harrub (Ph.D. Anatomy and Neurobiology) and Bert Thompson (Ph.D. Microbiology), The Truth About Human Origins , 2003, p. 47.

Chimp vs. Human Pelvis Chimp Human

Lucy’s Pelvis ,[object Object],[object Object],J. Stern & R. Sussman, American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 1983, pp. 291 & 292.

PBS Nova Series ; In Search of Human Origins episode one 1994 (Dr. Owen Lovejoy) Lucy’s pelvis is “wrong” because it is very ape-like

“Fixing” Lucy with a power saw! PBS Nova Series ; In Search of Human Origins episode one 1994 (Dr. Owen Lovejoy)

Knee Joint of A. afarensis ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Orangutan = 9 ° Spider monkey = 9 °

How Evolution Hinders Critical Thinking

Lucy: What Nice Feet You Have Drawing from Life: The Science of Biology , Purves, Orians, and Heller, 1992, p. 604. St Louis zoo replica of Lucy

Apes and Humans – a Test Which footprint is human? Human

Laetoli Footprints Footprints discovered in 1978 in Laetoli, Tanzania. The footprints were dated at 3.5 million years old. Who made these footprints?

Ape and Human Footprints Laetoli footprint Ape (Lucy) Human

Footprints and Real Evidence ,[object Object],Russell Tuttle, “The Pattern of Little Feet,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology , Feb 1989, p. 316.

Anatomy of Australopithecines ,[object Object],David Catchpoole, Ph.D., “New evidence: Lucy was a knuckle-walker”, www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4256news5-5-2000.asp

Evolution Rejects the Evidence ,[object Object],Creation ex nihilo , Dec 1996, p.52. In other words, evolution must use bad science to deceive people ‘ Absolutely not ’ .”

Textbooks Promoting Bad Science ,[object Object],Biology: Concepts and Connections , 2000, p. 404.

Confusion about Lucy ,[object Object],[object Object],Robert Boyd and Joan Silk, (both professors of anthropology), How Humans Evolved , 2000, pp. 331-334. Why the confusion? Why aren’t students told about this?

Did Lucy Walk Upright? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Did Lucy Walk Upright? “ I walked over to the cabinet, pulled out Lucy, and shazam! – she had the morphology that was classic for knuckle walkers.” “ Regardless of the status of Lucy’s knee joint, new evidence has come forth that Lucy has the morphology of a knuckle-walker.” Richmand and Strait, “Evidence that Humans Evolved from Knuckle-Walking Ancestor,” Nature , 2000. E. Stokstad, “Hominid Ancestors May Have Knuckle Walked,” Science , 2000.

Did Lucy Walk Upright? ,[object Object],[object Object],Charles Oxnard (professor of anatomy and leading expert on australopithecine fossils), The Order of Man: A Biomathematical Anatomy of the Primates , 1984, p. 332.

Did Lucy Walk Upright? ,[object Object],Stuart Burgess (Ph.D. CEng), Hallmarks of Design , 2002, p. 166.

10 Unique Characteristics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Textbooks and Accuracy Biology: The Web of Life, 1993 1 Teeth 3 Flatter face 2 Eye socket

Mechanism for Change Is it possible for a Lucy-like creature to evolve into a human?

Evolution and Change ,[object Object],[object Object],KEY : This process must add New Information ,[object Object]

Natural Selection ,[object Object],[object Object],Can natural selection cause one kind (species) to become a new kind? Natural selection ONLY works with existing information No!

Human Variation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],This is an example of genetic variation and natural selection and NOT evolution Billy Barty 3-foot-9 Shaquille O’neal 7-foot -1

Mutation Evolution possible yes Add information No evolution No Change morphology No Yes Detrimental Neutral Beneficial No change No evolution Disease No evolution

Mutations and Evolution ,[object Object],[object Object],Lee Spetner (Ph.D. Physics – MIT, taught information and communications at Johns Hopkins University), Not By Chance , 1997, pp. 131, 138.

Scientists ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Summary ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14

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